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Article #29690Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare...
From: Bill Mayhew
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1987 00:45
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1987 00:45
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<< no use for multitasking in the home >> Heck, Susan and John Averageuser don't even have to know that multitaksing is going on behind thier innocent unsuspecting backs. There are a lot of places where multitasking can be of use to us programmers and we don't even have to let the public in on our secret. Here's just an idea. How about a sooper-dooper word processor with mind boggling scrolling and true multicolumn text display, etc. What John and Susan don't have to know is that while they are hunting and pecking their way through the current screen that a sneaky little task has been spawned to compose the adjacent screens. When the Averageusers scroll up or down *poof* (!) the next screen appears virtually instantaneously. "Hey Jack, NIFTY Amiga you've got! I wonder why my Eye Bee Umm can't do that. I keep hearing about OS/2 but I just can't afford it and the 2 two-megabyte option cards its gunna take to run it. Garsh!" Case closed. Happy Holidays! --Bill
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!umix!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cbosgd!mandrill!neoucom!wtm From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Multi-tasking? A nightmare... Message-ID: <873@neoucom.UUCP> Date: 22 Dec 87 00:45:27 GMT References: <2027@bath63.ux63.bath.ac.uk> <2643@gryphon.CTS.COM> Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine Lines: 25 Summary: The user doesn't need to know you're multitasking (hee, hee).